Lois Sandborne

Joyce is disgusting. Why would you fix your face to say Riley should inherit more than Ace and Blaze because she's "been there the whole time"? They're Kandi's children? Your own grandkids? Ugh. I don't know how much of a hand she had in raising Riley, but it's making sense to me how Riley turned out. What I will also say is, if there's a Burruss-Tucker body buried anywhere, Don Juan knows where it is. They got that man involved in everything. I'm not interested in seeing any more of Marlo's family tragedies exploited for her story lines. I hope they go back to counseling though. Kenya getting into 5,000 stores is really an accomplishment. Good for her and her team. And good to see her BFF Brandon that's been missing since the disastrous Pillow Talk night. LOL at them strutting out the store chanting "Kenya Moore Hair Care." I noticed at least one of the models had their face pixelated, so I did wonder if the checks cleared. I knew Sheree was gonna pull the show off, even if limping over the line three hours late. I still don't think too much will come of "She by Sheree" the fashion brand, but I'm glad she got her moment of redemption on the show. It was a long time coming. The clothes weren't much to look at, but what Sheree had on was very cute, if that's something she designed. I am surprised she didn't make a statement or a speech at all, but the support from all the crowd and all the ladies was very nice. And it was really good to see people like Deshawn and Dwight. They could've kept Apollo. And there was no need to see Tyrone's thirsty ass. I think he redid (undid?) his nose. His hair looked way better too.

That's it, and that's all. If I could get one of those Big Brother sky writers to put this in the air over the reunion, I would. Mitch to me is a prime example of someone who got all their knowledge of social issues direct from Reddit and immediately started acting like the highest possible authority on How the World Should Be. In other words, he's the bane of my existence. Someone pointed out that he threw another tantrum over the shirt, this time yelling about all the "buttons" (???) and saying no man would possibly ever wear it. Mitch is an immature, hypocritical, judgmental, controlling little bitch. There was no good reason for him to be cast on this show.

OMG how I laughed at Sheree trying to walk back that $1 million quote. Nobody was buying that one. But anyway, ain't no way in the world Sheree let Bravo bring her on here and resurrect this fashion show story again, without having something spectacular planned. I mean no, she's not a bright bulb, but nobody is that damn dumb. I think Sheree will pull off some sort of a show, and it'll look just enough like a real fashion show to shut people up. Now will she end up with an actual clothing line? Tuh

He could've said what he wanted from his seat and then left the table. I guess it's different for everybody but no matter the gender there's no quicker way to take me from 1 to 10 than standing up over me yelling. And that doesn't have anything to do with women's bidness, it's just about respect. Really though, Ross didn't need to say anything. Sanya wasn't in danger or even being attacked. She signed up for a Housewives franchise. People are gonna argue with her. And this was only two women who had anything to say to her so Sanya actually got off light. Kandi is something else about her food. How do you have that big ass set-to with Marlo where you don't even want to hear her apology, and don't even want to be wearing the same shirt as her, lol, but you make it up over a chicken wing?! That Jamaican KFC must truly be fire because I can't imagine being that greedy on tv. Chicken wings made me forget my favorite part of the episode. Kenya asking who could put Marlo, a "wannabe, irrelevant, pedestrian" in charge of her. LOL.

Sanya is a bad communicator and a bad party planner. She is not giving what she was supposed to gave. That's it exactly. It's a popular meme on Black Twitter and other social media to throw tomatoes at a wack post (I would guess Sheree was referencing this gif in particular but it fell flat like one of Drew's props.) I remember Riley begging for birthday money on Instagram too. I never liked her, and that was the exact point that I stopped feeling bad about it. I have a little sympathy for Marlo, and I give her some credit, because I'm not taking in anybody's kids, and she's apparently done it twice. But she deserves the criticism she's gotten too. Common sense would tell you a lot of this stuff that she seems to be just now figuring out, especially not to stick those tween/teen boys on TV with everything that's going on in their lives, not to ambush them with the promise of a call from their unpredictable, unstable mom, and not to just kick them out of their home all of a sudden because they're on your nerves. I hope they all wind up in therapy and stay there whether the kids end up going back to stay with Marlo or not.

I'm down. I know one of the leads, Shawna, from the Keep It! podcast where she regularly used to get on my nerves. I like her much better as an actress. But I think Mia's gonna be my favorite. I barely know anything about the City Girls, so if they did draw specific stuff from their story, it was lost on me. But I liked the high school reunion aspect, and Shawna's hertep music. Other than that, it was a little too much going on; too many characters. All the different producers. Mia has friends, and her mama has friends, then it's Shawna's boyfriend in NYC and his friends. We don't need all that upfront.

Agreed. I hate that it's on Peacock; that's like barely even a network. I basically go there for this show and Columbo. It's so hard to tell how anything is doing anymore, but I wish there was more chatter about the show. When I recommend it to people they've generally never heard of it. I don't blame them for not getting any Emmy love; they probably never heard of it either. Which is a real shame. It's such a gem, especially this season with more of the Minishonka community getting the spotlight, and more focus on Bobby too. I don't know what a success even is by Peacock standards but I hope they give it another season.

I love this show. Not a lot of chatter about it, but it's so good. And the cast is so good! Even when the characters are kind of trope-y like Nicholas, Joel Kim Booster makes him funny with his delivery and expressions. And Michaela Rodriguez has come a really long way since those first episodes of Pose. Also I don't know who the music supervisor is on this show but I want them to score my life. I loved Ben & Kate. It was my intro to Nat Faxon (as well as Dakota Johnson, who unfortunately hasn't held on to my fandom since then, lol). But if you see it streaming anywhere, it's well worth watching.

I have heard Shea express sadness/disappointment in the last few weeks at only earning one star, and I've heard her say she wasn't doing as well as she expected to beforehand, and that she had started to make peace with the idea that she wouldn't be in the Final Four. I haven't heard her whining or complaining about anything. And honestly, that's been a relief to me since I like Shea but her All Stars win did feel a little like she was on a crusade to get what she "deserved." I think Shea has come a long way since then, and she seems a lot more relaxed and mature to me now. That said, I tend to dip in and out of Drag Race watching depending on my tolerance level for the shenanigans, so I understand if the sudden 3 star prize makes everything feel like rigga morris. I'm in the club that watches for the quips and the looks and the lip syncs, and Ru can do what he wants with the crowns. With this group I would've rather gotten more talent. This was a really slight episode; they probably could've fit in runway and made everybody do a second act. Jinkx has been getting on my nerves lately, but if she wins it'll definitely be deserved. I hope Jaida takes it home for the bottom girls.

Well ... there was a pretty good episode in Season 5 ("A Blast from the Past") featuring Sugarbaker's on the Tour of Homes, and Julia getting righteously angry at the "Bored Housewife" curator for making up lies about her home and ancestors for all of the tourists and their "babies who sneeze fudgesicle juice!" while she and Mary Jo wore ridiculous hoopskirts. Then there was the ... unfortunate hour-long series finale in which Sugarbaker's is hired to decorate an antebellum mansion where the hideous new owners plan to rip out a staircase just like the one at Tara, and they each have extended fantasy sequences where they imagine themselves as Scarlett O'Hara.

Speaking of which, this week's episode of RuPaul's Drag Race had the winners perform a final lip sync challenge to Julia's iconic rant: Monet, the queen in yellow, got extra points from me for dressing with Sugarbaker realness.

There's a really expansive profile of Nathan in the latest New York Magazine. It's ostensibly about his new HBO show, but there's way more in there on Nathan for You, the show's origins, and its legacy in the wave of cringe comedy. There was some particularly good discussion about how they got clients for the show and what people thought they were doing vs. them finding out it was a comedy show.

It brought me some brief joy to think of the writers and their pleasure in forcing John to do that Björk impression. I'm appalled by learning that developers have long since moved to sucking up our groundwater even as the Earth cracks and buckles right under their pumps. And that guy at the Water Authority was a real prize. "Yeah, hey, people keep moving here to the Nevada desert and weirdly enough they expect to have a ton of water when they get here, so we've got to get it from somewhere!" And once it's all gone? Why, I guess they'll just make some new water for developers to pump down into the aquifers. Science will surely crack it by then. People, particularly in the US, but in a lot of rich countries across the world, are simply not prepared for the sacrifices that the next couple decades are going to force us to make. It's a complicated tangle of corporate irresponsibility, markets, and individual choice, but no matter where the blame goes we're all going to pay. We've been living off the fat of the land, and now the land is lean, mean, and fighting back.

Yes! They all had pretty amazing line delivery in my book, but Meshach Taylor really made things stick. I love how he'd say "No, but thank you very much for asking!" whenever anyone asked him something racist, or asked him to do something outlandish. I rewatched Season 4 this past weekend because it's my favorite and I really needed the pick me up. I haven't seen this show in a while, but I think they were just firing on all cylinders at this time. I guess it's because of the writing, but the show generally seems so fresh and creative to me, different to the same old plots you see on every sitcom, even when they were doing the same old plots. Like there are probably a dozen shows with characters getting their heads stuck in something, but I'll always remember the Abbot Bannister and Miss Betts the usherette at the Governor's mansion. Or in one of my very favorites, "Tornado Watch." A storm is a trope as old as time, but they put a great spin on it with all the randoms showing up and Charlene filming it all. ("Happy anniversary, LOIS AND SHIMMY!!!") Or the mistress episode! ("Well, I guess she knew.") They just had a way of making things pop. I think Bill had some spark in the episode where Charlene thinks he's having an affair because his copilot is a woman, and the one where he comes back from overseas and Mary Jo is being a big third wheel while they're trying to reconnect. When I was a kid I had a little crush on Bill because the actor is handsome and he pretty much is Charlene's fantasy, but no there really isn't much to him. I don't think any of her love interests were much to write home about though. I guess Other Bill had a sense of humor. They were great together. I do love JD's line in I think the Nightmare from Hee Haw episode when he says to Mary Jo that she doesn't have to keep inviting him on those group trips since they've broken up.

I suspected the end was nigh, and I know this series has had the most episodes of all the shows in the Morse "universe," but I'm still sad to hear the news. I wonder if there will be any more of a time jump than usual. And mostly I just hope they give us a bit of fan service and everyone survives.

I thought with Opening Day and the start of the new MLB season we might finally get some news about this show, or at least a premiere date. Apparently production is finished, but the most Amazon will say is some time this year. I think the film's 30th anniversary is this summer; maybe they're waiting until then to start creating a buzz.

Well that would sure be a new one on Hollywood.

You and me both. I thought about greed and self-sacrifice. Ticketmaster and Live Nation both had so much money, and so much of the market before they joined forces. Why bother? I know the answer, but really. And respect to Pearl Jam for at least trying to buck the system, but I can't help wondering what would've happened if they had actually made that statement. Or maybe if a few top artists just played the ski resorts for a little while. I know they make most of their money on touring, but if you know your tour is bleeding your fans dry? Anyway. I'm naive too. I'm also a hip, happening milennial, so I've had my share of run-ins with the worst iteration of ticket purchasing over the years. I knew a little bit about the monopoly aspect, the bespoke tickets, and the resale market nightmare. But I did not know the scale of everything, especially the ridiculous amounts of money involved, until John laid it all out. A few of my friends just had to launch a full-scale operation to get tickets for Anita Baker's Las Vegas show (all of them on the site waiting in advance, on mobile and laptop; five people trying and still only one got a purchase through before it sold out in 20 minutes). Thinking about all of this going on behind the scenes makes me offended on their behalf. I'm glad they tackled De Santis's tantrum, and the stupid distinction they want to draw between "discussion" and "instruction." The sweet kindergarten teacher had it absolutely right. None of these book-banning nightmares are going to think twice about that if they feel their little darling heard a word they don't like. They're going to go for the jugular, just as the law allows.

It's been removed from Hoopla too, apart from one of the Masterclass specials. Maybe this is in preparation for all of the series being available on a new service. That seems to be the way things go now. Paramount+ just swept up all of the loose Star Trek; Disney+ did the same for all the Marvel stuff. Bake Off isn't quite so much of a franchise as they are, but otherwise what's the reason for completely pulling it off of streaming platforms?

I agree with those who think Ava will continue being her selfish self, even though we now know she loves her grandmother. However, I have been urging everybody who truly loves her character to get into South Side, another gem of a show. Officer Turner is hideous and hilarious in a very similar way to Ava, and she's pretty much irredeemable. The show's on Comedy Central and/or HBO Max. Also, I have a cherry cobbler in the oven right now, so all y'all who doesn't like cooked fruit can send your pie over to me.

Noooooooooo

I should've paid more attention to the credits. If I'd realized that Anna was a producer I never would've wasted my time watching this mess.

Well the kind of viewer I am means my favorite part was the long drive home through the city, past Thug Yoda and his daughter at the Dunes, and Frieda and Sarah at We Got Y'all. They put a lot of work into showing Issa that Issa could be happy together with Lawrence and baby Jah. Letting Nathan drop the "messy" bomb on her (and let me quickly move away from how hypocritical it was for him to say that because I'm just glad to finally see him go) contrasted with her saying much the same to Lawrence in the premiere. They gave her some time to be alone and to successfully date around, and to realize that she really wanted Lawrence and he wanted her. Shoving all of that in one episode with Molly getting married and her mother dying, and Kelli having a baby, etc. made the whole thing feel rushed and less than satisfying, but I was ready to be less than satisfied. This show made a habit in the last little while of eliding conversations and scenes that I would've liked to see, so I enjoyed the scene between Issa and Molly at the wedding talking about their friendship. And I really liked the long look into the mirror without Mirror Issa popping up, and the idea that Real Issa is at least now secure with making choices and taking action. Last week someone called this season low-effort, and that still feels right to me. Insecure built up a lot of goodwill over its run, and without that I wouldn't be feeling as warm and sentimental about the ending they served. But I'm happy they gave us what they did. Also eagle-eyed viewers on reddit pointed out that Issa is wearing an engagement ring in the last couple scenes, so there's that.

Agreed. I'd have rather kept up with Quoia. In no other season of this show have I had to remind myself on Tuesday to watch Sunday's episode, but that's where I am. I still love this show so I'll be tuning in for next week's finale. But I don't really feel invested anymore in what happens; it's very much "let's just see what they're gonna do." I'm ready to wind this up and wait on a good fic writer to give me the season we deserved.

Me at the end of pretty much every episode this season: WHAT WAS THE REASON?! I understand the storytelling concept of "show don't tell," but for that to work there has to actually be some story told, damn. Keeping plot wheels spinning while you push to the end is not telling a story. And enough is enough with the fantasies. I think by now the point has been made that Issa is ambivalent about her path forward and struggling with the right choices in her career and her social life. She's not sure Nathan/Lawrence/whoever will make her happy? She doesn't know how to level up with the corporate interests and still keep her roots in the community intact? We got that. We know. To have her still doing so much daydreaming about these same old questions makes Issa seem shallow and immature, like she hasn't really been doing any growing all this time. What would've probably made a better season of tv and would definitely have made this a better episode is for Issa to actually do something about any of it. They could've picked up on that perfectly fine story arc they dropped in the premiere, when Issa was completely at sea on the panel. She's clearly come a little farther now in knowing where she wants to go, and there were good plot opportunities for her to synthesize her thoughts, use her words, and make a move. Instead, more dilly-dallying. And, to be fair, a very nice speech from Molly. Cool that her Mom bounced back from that stroke so fast. But Dr. Rhonda is clearly still somewhere doing some good work. Molly couldn't drop the facade with her parents, but I cheered a little when she turned off that fake voice and got real with Taurean. Sidenote: agreed that Crenshawn can continue to kick rocks; how are you bashing me on front street but wanna apologize in the alley? At least bring me a free Integrity sweatshirt. Another sidenote: I'm guessing it's a director's or a style choice for Issa and Nathan's love scenes to be so dry? But if I'm Nathan's actor, I couldn't go out like that. Last one: I think lowkey the fantasy bits are supposed to be fanservice, which if so is making me think they have no clue what fans are looking for. At this point I really need it to be one hell of a finale.